Bill C-22 died during the last session because it and other crime based bills were not passed by the senate in time.
The government has retabled violent crime bills including Bill C-22 as Bill C-2.
The numbers indicate where on the list the bills sit. As you can guess last time the age of protection legislation was titled Bill C-22. Now as Bill C-2 perhaps, just perhaps it will be passed by the end of the current parliamentary session.
I’m still concerned though because in the past incarnation of the Age of Protection Act, it was a bill standing on its own. Now, as part of Bil C-2 its become one of many crime bills. So if there is a problem with any of the other proposed bills, what might happen to the age of protection act? Scuttled again?
Omnibus crime bill first challenge for opposition parties
Meagan Fitzpatrick, CanWest News Service
Published: Thursday, October 18, 2007
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The Tackling Violent Crime bill, Bill C-2, brings back to life a series of bills that were stalled in the last session of Parliament and then killed when Harper prorogued the session.
The sweeping piece of legislation combines bills that would stiffen penalties for impaired driving, raise the age of sexual consent to 16 from 14, impose stricter bail conditions for those who commit crimes with guns, and also impose mandatory prison terms for gun crimes.
On Wednesday, Harper accused the Liberals and other opposition parties of dragging their feet for months on a range of law-and-order bills introduced in the last session, and said he won’t allow that to happen again. He said “democracy will not tolerate” further obstruction, and that Canadians are impatient for action to make their homes and streets safer.
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